Pricey deworming remedies are being touted as cure-alls. Supermodel Heidi Klum gave it a go – experts roll their eyes ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, ...

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Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...

A teenage boy had a giant growth removed from his brain after being infected with a parasitic tapeworm. The previously healthy 14-year-old from a farm in India sought medical attention after ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. A study led by ...

Consider yourself lucky that you’re not a spider. They may seem like they sit on top of the food chain in the bug world, but they’re vulnerable to an even worse fate than just being eaten: falling ...

If you happen to come across plants of the Balanophoraceae family in a corner of a forest, you might easily mistake them for fungi growing around tree roots. Their mushroom-like structures are ...

As Halloween approaches, decorations of ghosts, vampires, and witches pattern walls and windows. But for William Eberhard, a staff scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and ...